Best of 2017: App Store and Google Play Announce their Top Apps of the Year

2017 is about to end, and all the wrap-ups and rundowns of the year's favorites and most-loved are starting to roll out. Apple's App Store just released their Best of 2017 last December 8 to share the top trends of the year, app of the year, game of the year, and stickers of the year to iOS users. For Android users, meanwhile, Google shared Google Play's “Best of 2017” -- the apps and games that their Android community loved the most.

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See if your apps and games made it to the cut, and discover new ones to install on your gadgets and try out for yourselves!

App of The Year: Enlight Videoleap, an app from the makers of Facetune and Enlight, lets users get creative with video, be it for personal clips or high-end pro level films. You can even edit RAW footage, manage filters and effects through its layer-based editing, or use a chroma key function for green screen effects!

Game of The Year: 2017 iPhone Game of the Year goes to Splitter Critters, the app also announced as Apple Design Award Winner 2017. By slashing your screen by a swipe of the finger, you 'split' the world of little aliens, rearrange the terrain to help guide critters find a safe path back to their spaceship.